تأثير منهج تعليمي في تعلم بعض المهارات الأساسية للسباحة الحرة لدى الأطفال المكفوفين فطريا بأعمار (8-10)‎ سنوات

الملخص EN

The blind children are among the most special groups in need of attention and assistance, because the blind are born with all the elements of a full human.

He feels and is influenced by life, but the sense of sight lost shall be subject to many restrictions and reflected the impact on his psychological, social and neglecting them exacerbates their problems and doubled their disability and thus they become a burden on their families and their community.

Before being disabled, the blind people are ordinary citizens and part of the community, who have rights, like any human being, to obtain their share of education in the limits of their abilities and energies.

They deserve greater care and attention in their upbringing and education so that they have the ability to adapt to the demands of life and make their own paths based on their abilities.

Practicing sports of swimming plays an efficient role in the field of normal activity and can bring this role with special needs, so the practice of the sport of swimming serve as a necessity for individuals without disabilities in general and serve as an urgent necessity for the blind, in particular.

Swimming is one of the best sports in which the individual uses his body to move through the aqueous medium, which seems sort of strange because the limbs of the blind people are intact and can technically accommodate the art of motor performance and swim easily, as they do not need a lot of aid or innovations for training as much as they need to be patient and waiting from the teacher.

There are numerous scientific studies and research in the field of swimming related to normal people, but there are few studies that went to special classes.

They are our brothers, and are unwilling forced to live under special circumstances, which made them face a number of problems and difficulties, because of the shortage of potential and abilities in life practice like normal individuals.

The blind children instinctively have the ability to learn and so to compensate the visual concepts through exposure to learning experiences especially using special educational methods that rely on alternative senses of sight which may contribute in transferring content and delivering the educational material to them simply and clearly that may contribute to make them learn swimming.

The sport of swimming, like other sports, in which the educational aids play a major role in the education process as they have a significant impact in the learning process that helps to clarify and facilitate the process of teaching in a simple way.

Because of what mentioned above, and the previous studies, which were about the types of disability, it was noted that the researchers in people with special needs were not interested in teaching the blind swimming.

Therefore, the researcher thought it was necessary to conduct this study to teach the basic skills of freestyle with instinctively blind children aged (8-10) years.

The research aims to reveal the impact of the curriculum in learning some basic skills for freestyle swimming among the instinctively blind children aged (8-10) years.